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Lando Norris broke the track record to qualify on pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, besting Charles Leclerc and title rival Oscar Piastri.

Lando Norris snatched pole from local hero Charles Leclerc on a dramatic final lap of qualifying in Monaco. The McLaren star needs to claw back the gap to team-mate and Drivers' Championship leader, Oscar Piastri, and he will have a golden opportunity to put maximum points on the board tomorrow (Sunday).

*For viewers lucky enough to have access to Belgian, Austrian and Swiss television broadcasts, the main race at the Monaco GP can be watched live free-to-air on ORF (Austria) and RSI La 2/RTS 2/SRF 2/SRF (Switzerland). On RTBF (Belgium) the entire race weekend can be watched for free.

Oscar Piastri says the new mandatory two-stop regulations at the Monaco Grand Prix have created so many potential scenarios that his head is “still kind of untwisting itself” trying to understand them.

Oscar Piastri is doing what he needs to do to win a first Formula One title, the sport's most successful driver of all time Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday.

The eighth round of the 2025 Formula 1 season also marks the 82nd edition of the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo this weekend. Charles Leclerc was crowned the prince of Monaco last year with his first win in his home province, and the first Ferrari victory at the Circuit de Monaco since Sebastian Vettel in 2017.

Fresh off Max Verstappen’s surprise win at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, the championship battle intensifies as McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris look to extend their lead and claim the team’s first Monaco victory since 2008.